Sorry, but I don’t have any ‘Before’ photos. I also cleaned the laundry, but the laundry is only small and doesn’t look much tidier than it did when I started. But I mopped, did dishes, wiped down benches, dusted everything on the benches, tidied the pantry, cleaned the microwave, cleaned the fruitbowl, and just generally tidied up.
And photos only taken on my phone. Sorry.
…that I’m never going to be a tidy person.
I just spent an hour cleaning the laundry and kitchen, and it still looks terrible.
I’ve resolved to clean a room every night after work, but I know that by the time I finish the last room, the first one I cleaned will be back where I started.
It’s so hard, too, when my hubby is a messy person. He’ll just step out of his clothes and leave them on the floor. I’ve tried to resolve this issue by putting the hamper in the bedroom, but it doesn’t help.
And another thing that is preventing me from being a tidy person is my perfectionism. When I clean, everything has to be perfect; there cannot be one thing out of place, ie. a spot on the kitchen counter, and if there is and I can’t do anything about it, I get so frustrated and upset with myself. This is particularly true when it comes to making the bed – if the sheet isn’t central and the doona cover isn’t on straight, or the doona isn’t even in the cover (like the corners not going into the corners, etc.), I get really annoyed.
I need to look at everything unbiasedly and just throw shit out. I don’t like living in clutter, but it’s how I’ve always been. Like my Dad said in his speech at our wedding, “Being tidy isn’t a priority in Terri’s life. She knows where everything is, so what’s the problem?”, but it’s kind of sad when you’re known as ‘The Messy One’ in your family…
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